Title: [Plugin: Networks for WordPress] Getting Started on localhost – Network admin access problems Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # [Plugin: Networks for WordPress] Getting Started on localhost – Network admin access problems * Resolved [cereus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cereus/) * (@cereus) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-networks-for-wordpress-getting-started-on-localhost-network-admin-access-problems/) * Hello! And first a big thanks to the developers for such great tools! * I am working at a small institution and as a side project am trying to set up wordpress/buddypress/network system. * I can install wordpress, get multisite enabled, install buddypress. All works fine. Now I want to make independent buddypress setups for each group in the institute. So I start fresh – wordpress installed, enable multisite and then install Networks for WordPress. * I can install the Networks for WordPress Plugin, and can create networks but it appears that I can only access Network Admin for the first site that I created. ie institute.intranet is from the fresh installation of wordpress, and group1. institute.intranet, group2.institute.intranet are Networks that I create after installing Networks for WordPress. * After this, I install BP Multi Network Plugin (in a created mu-plugins directory and copy php file – took me a bit to figure that out). Then I install buddypress and I’m supposed to activate buddypress on each network (group1.institute.intranet, group2.institute.intranet). However, as mentioned above, I can only access Network Admin for my first site (Network Admin:institute.intranet but I can never get Network Admin: group1.institute.intranet). * Since my background is not in server setups, I wonder if I am missing something straightforward. * For example, I running on the local server machine, I have altered the local hosts file to point my sites (institute.intranet, group1.institute.intranet,) to the server IP (and once I have things running will focus on dns resolving for the institute later) but perhaps this has messed things up? * Or is there just some simple menu item somewhere that I am missing. * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/networks-for-wordpress/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/networks-for-wordpress/) * Thanks in advance for any tips, suggestions or links to something I should read. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Thread Starter [cereus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cereus/) * (@cereus) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-networks-for-wordpress-getting-started-on-localhost-network-admin-access-problems/#post-2916695) * Hmmm. Appears that Comment out DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE in your wp-config.php file. works. How I missed that… * [will_c](https://wordpress.org/support/users/will_c/) * (@will_c) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-networks-for-wordpress-getting-started-on-localhost-network-admin-access-problems/#post-2916769) * [@cereus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cereus/), thanks for the tip! This got us up and working as well. It seems to only be a problem when using sub-directories. I followed the advice in the following post in an effort to provide a more robust solution than simply commenting the line out, but it didn’t help. * [http://jasonirwin.ca/2011/05/28/wordpress-multi-site-with-multi-domains/](http://jasonirwin.ca/2011/05/28/wordpress-multi-site-with-multi-domains/) * ``` define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', 'yoursite.com' ); $site_domain = 'yoursite.com'; if ( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != $site_domain ) { $site_domain = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; } define( 'DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', $site_domain ); ``` * I was still directed to the main network admin rather than the sub-network admin. I think that’s probably because $site_domain will still be yoursite.com even for sub directories. I tried hardcoding $site_domain to ‘yoursite.com/subdir’, but I received a redirect loop error. Commenting out the DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE got it back working. * Have you run into any problems after simply commenting that line out? * Thread Starter [cereus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cereus/) * (@cereus) * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-networks-for-wordpress-getting-started-on-localhost-network-admin-access-problems/#post-2916770) * Well, I haven’t had any problems with domains, yet, but I don’t have a system up and running. * The next big problem is I don’t get separation of my buddypress networks. When buddypress is installed on a network, it adds all the blogs to the network (which can be deleted in the table manually). The same thing happens with all users. New blogs created on different networks aren’t added. I can remove the extra blogs from the tables, but I don’t know which tables contain the information about which user belongs to which network. * And I can’t figure out a good way to make the networks private. * So I keep working. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘[Plugin: Networks for WordPress] Getting Started on localhost – Network admin access problems’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/networks-for-wordpress.svg) * [Networks for WordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/networks-for-wordpress/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/networks-for-wordpress/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/networks-for-wordpress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/networks-for-wordpress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/networks-for-wordpress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/networks-for-wordpress/reviews/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [cereus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cereus/) * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-networks-for-wordpress-getting-started-on-localhost-network-admin-access-problems/#post-2916770) * Status: resolved